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Finished my fiddle.

Posted by Mark Werner on May 21, 2011 at 3:29pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

I put up pics of it ready-to-assemble a bit ago, this is the mostly-finished product:

 

I went ahead and bought a student bow; big difference.   Thing sounds pretty decent, considering that I can't play it.....  Nice "fiddley" tone.   

Learned a couple of things... The strings have to be really low at the nut, or the intonation gets thrown way off.    Also, very difficult to tune.  No wonder real fiddles have fine-tuners.  The slightest tweak on the tuning pegs makes a big change.

I've been fooling around with trying to get a decent tone out of the thing and learning the essential first-position notes... 

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  • Rand Moore May 25, 2011 at 6:12am

    LOL. You should go to a violin class with your fiddle and see their response.

    -Rand.

  • Mark Werner May 24, 2011 at 7:59pm
    Glad to oblige... Could you send an actual fiddle player by my house?     Hehe... It's gonna be a while, I fear.
  • Rand Moore May 24, 2011 at 1:43pm

    Your CBF turned out really nice. Can't wait to hear it!

    -Rand.

  • Henry Strat-o-varius Lowman May 23, 2011 at 8:22pm
    Yup, THAT'S a winner!
  • Uncle John May 23, 2011 at 8:15pm
    That is hang in the art store pretty.
  • Diane in Chicago May 22, 2011 at 3:42pm

    Here's the earlier post for folks looking for shot of the innards:  http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/fiddle-ready-for-final

     

    Can you post all these photos in the fiddle group?  For posterity?

  • Mark Werner May 22, 2011 at 2:50pm

    I put in a traditional "bass bar", running the length of the top on the bass side of the bridge, and also a soundpost on the treble side.

    Yeah, there won't be any video for a while, I've been sort of painfully figuring out the finger placement.  I do play mandolin a bit, that helps.

  • Diane in Chicago May 22, 2011 at 9:12am

    I could not find your earlier pix. Do you have a dowel running through the box?

     

    It turned out great!  Join Fiddlehangout.com and learn how to play!

  • Ben May 21, 2011 at 9:38pm
    Well done! Audio or video samples on the way?
  • Don Thompson May 21, 2011 at 6:48pm

    Nice build, I know how much work went into it.

    Don

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